Color Me Bear: Group Toy Show

Color Me Bear
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   Last weekend I caught a unique exhibit in Central World mall Bangkok. "Color Me Bear" is a group show featuring some of Thailand's greatest artists along with young up-&-comers all presenting paintings with accompanying custom versions of Medicom Toys' signature Be@rBrick figures. The event was expertly organized by Vinylnation Store, with a wide diversity of artists, thoughtful promotion, presentation & display which isn't easy in the middle of a shopping mall.

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Thailand Toy Expo 2018: Part 2

Thailand Toy Expo 2018: Part 2
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   The Thailand Toy Expo is such a huge event that I had to break my coverage into 3 parts of over 120 photos. I spent a weekend at Central World Bangkok & feel like I didn't get to see all the displays. There are so many toys I had to leave out because I wanted to bring you only the very best. I've added bonus TTE2018 photos on my Tumblr. Scroll down to get your geek on!

JT Studio - 6 pics

Jei Tsang 曾弘傑 (Taiwan)

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Thailand Toy Expo 2018: Part 1

Thailand Toy Expo 2018: Part 1

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   Back in the spring, Central World Bangkok hosted The 2018 Thailand Toy Expo. It's a huge 3 day event  with a variety of displays within & just outside of the downtown shopping mall. As usual, I'm ridiculously late to the party, but I thought I'd share some shots of my favorite designer toys anyway.
Better late than never??

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RESTORE - 6 pics

Junnosuke Abe (Japan)
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Street Art Festival: Meeting of Styles Thailand 2016

Meeting of Styles: Thailand 2016
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   Back in the spring, I got to check out The Meeting of Styles street art festival in Pattaya, Thailand. I was surprised how many international artists this small event attracted. It was held in a derelict, 5 story nightclub w/ open elevator shafts & a giant hole in the middle of the 3rd floor.    

   This enter at your own risk locale was one of those "only in Thailand" situations where artists were given free reign to wander & create wherever they chose.

   It's notoriously difficult to identify street artists, because of vandalism laws, although there is growing acceptance w/ the popularity of street art. If you know any of these artists please message me via Facebook or Twitter & I will add the credit.

   Check out lots more street art from the festival, below.

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Worst Asian Ever: Shun Gon in The Aristocats

Shun Gon  #WAE

   Shun Gon is one of the alley cats band members. He plays the piano & drums & is supposed to be Chinese.

   The character & way over-the-top treatment was clearly informed by Mickey Rooney's infamous portrayal of I.Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's  

"Shanghai, Hong Kong, egg foo yung. Fortune cookie always wrong."

Worst Asian Ever: Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong (정강조) #WAE
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   Ok, maybe he's not THE worst, but I'm not a big fan of Dr. Kendrick Kang-Jo Jeong

   I have nothing against Ken personally. I understand how difficult it is for Asian Americans to make it in Hollywood.

   What disappoints me is the whiny, annoying, obnoxious, weird characters he always plays & it's because of these roles that he is one of the most successful & prominent Asian American actors of this decade.

   I know people gotta pay their bills & if Ken didn't play these roles, casting would always find someone else.

   The rationalization is always the same, it's a first step, foot in the door. First we play slave, pimp, mugger, ho & that paves the way for future generations to play the hero, president, cowboy.

FILM: A Touch of Sin (天注定) - Part 1 "Hu Wenhai Incident"

A Touch of Sin (天注定) - Part 1
 The Hu Wenhai (胡文海) Incident
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   With the social tension of Do the Right Thing, the ferocious isolation of Taxi Driver & the meditative expansiveness of Magnolia, writer/director Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯) confronts China's socio-economic ills. Drawing inspiration from real-life events, his portrait of China unfolds in four chapters, presenting the tragic destiny of four sinners from four different provinces.

HAIKU Film Review: Touch of Sin

Cap-hell-ist China
My handle's fish seeks water
forever whipped down

    The first episode focuses on mine manager, Dahai (Jiang Wu) who takes brutal revenge on a corrupt village chief & all those around him. This is based on Hu Wenhai (胡文海) who, with a friend killed 14 people with a rifle & an ax.

See Touch of Sin - Part 2 & Part 3

TOP 8: Asian Hip-Hop Videos

   Yellowmenace counts down the 8 greatest Asian Hip Hop Songs of all time.

   With Asian Hip Hop it's really difficult to find decent artists. The problem w/ most Asian Hip Hop is that it's not legit, meaning it's lots of upper class Beiver-esque pretty boys who identify w/ 'bling rap' or have 'gangsta' fantasies. You also get lots managers & producers packaging up some dopey sucka as an MC because their market research indicates hip-hop is trendy.

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Top 8 Asian Hip-Hop Artists of All Time.

FILM: Outrage (アウトレイジ) - GIFs, Caps, & Trailers, Oh My!

Outrage (アウトレイジ): The Way of the Yakuza
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HAIKU Art Review: Outrage (アウトレイジ)

8-9-3 can't win
Death or jail for all gangsters
Split tongued Yakuza

   Takeshi Kitano (北野 武) hypnotizes audiences with his slow, simple style, punctuating it with moments of bloody violence. 

Outrage (アウトレイジ) Japanese trailer w/ Eng subs

Top 8: Asian Books EVR!

The Yellowmenace shares with you the 8 greatest Asian books of all time.

1) The Illustrated I Ching

       translator - R. L. Wing

HAIKU Book Review: Illustrated I Ching

Shake 3 coins, 6 times
64 future outcomes
straight or broken lines

   My spiritual advisor regarding major life decisions for the past 15 years. I've tried several other versions of the I Ching, but this is the best. Eloquently concise the translation reverberates with subtext. Each hexagram is complimented with an ancient ink paintings which adds further depth & insight to each reading.

"An easily accessible yet powerfully enlightening tool that will help readers understand the I Ching's way of knowledge and grasp the principles behind the world's most ancient book."

   I placed this book at #1 because of length of time it has been in my life & the impact it has continually had upon my journey. This isn't a book that sits on the shelf gathering dust, the I Ching is an advisor, my spiritual compass in times of turmoil or indecision.

2) Dance, Dance, Dance
       author - Haruki Murakami

HAIKU Book Review: Dance, Dance, Dance

Motel room Sheep Man
Our past spins us like laundry
Don't forget to dance

   I bought an English translation in Japan, read it every morning in a Korean park near my home with coffee & donuts while off from work. This was only my second Murakami, after Hardboiled Wonderland & Dance (x3) remains my favorite despite reading 3 more Murakami's.

VID: Eating Dog in China (& beyond)

Vice: Dining on Dogs in Yulin

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   A common stereotype & joke, the fact is eating animals, all kinds of animals & all their various organs is part of Asian culture. In white culture, many of these animals &/or parts are considered taboo, in this case, dog meat.

Viewer Discretion - Graphic depiction of market realities such as butchering meat, in this case dogs.

   Level & objective coverage of the Dog Eating Festival in Yulin, China. Even though the reporter clearly has a bias, she's a dog owner. She manages to show articulate arguments on both sides of this hyper-divisive issue, going as far as sampling the cuisine at a family celebration. 

   Southern China has always had a tradition of dining on dogs, despite becoming more prosperous in the 1990s, Yulin has maintained the unique tradition of holding a canine banquet every summer.

 Where do you stand? 

 Would/Have you eaten dog?

"People from other parts of China joke that, Southerners will eat anything with legs but the dinner table."

Take the Meat Eaters Challenge below.
My number's 24, what's yours?

ART: Agarwen - Mexican Samurai

Agarwen
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HAIKU Art Review:

Tattooed tough guys glare
Pale submissive nymphs shy glance
Watercolor dreams

   Mexican artist Agarwen is obsessed with Japanese culture, so he doesn't neatly fit into my Whitey Goes AZN segment.

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TV: Nichole Bloom - Shameless Girl

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   Japanese-Irish American actress Nichole Bloom caught my attention in one of my fav shows, Shameless. I actually had no idea she was Asian, but it's nice to see her in a show about a white trash family in Chicago.

"Do you speak Japanese?
I do speak Japanese; I love whipping it out and surprising people who don’t realize I’m Asian."
- The Dodgy

Amanda in Shameless

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VID: The Best of David So Comedy

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   David So is a Korean American comedian & serious R&B musician. His Youtube channel is huge w/ close to 1 mil subscribers & over 130 mil views. 

   Ball Handles - Especially for Bball fans, this is the rec league player we all know & hate, the dirtiest, weakest baller who thinks he's got pro skillz.

   Just do it pt2 -  Accurate characterizations of Koreans, so glad this is in Korean. Here is the difference between racism & comedy, when ur part of a culture U recognize certain stereotypes that exist in reality, when ur an outsider the conclusions ur making aren't based on intimate knowledge of the culture, but thru the filters of media or ur 1 friend of color (who is ur friend bc they're an outcast from their own heritage).

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ART: WangJia (王加) - Silky History

WangJia 王加 - A-she 阿舍
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Textures of aged silk
Longing for what never was
Dreams of ancient times

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THAI: Chom Iz Fashion Victim

Chompoo (ชมพู่) - Araya Hargate (อารยา ฮาร์เก็ต)
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Chompoo is famous actress, singer, model.. (comedian?) of Thai, Lao & British descent. She has a warm, charismatic personality & tons of talent, her fashion sense however, is an area where she does not excel.

    Yes, it's a fashion shoot, but you can always say "NO" when someone tries to stick a naked Barbie on ur head.

    She looks like some crazy Eskimo cheerleader.

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DANCE: World Order - Genki Renaissance

World Order - Genki Renaissance
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HAIKU: World Order by Yellowmenace

Fit in 2 stand out
Synchronized cyborgs in suits
Genki renaissance

Produced & Directed by GENKI SUDO (須藤元気)

VID: Asians Making Fun of whitey

Jenny Yang: If AZNs said the stuff whitey says

   5.5 mil views & counting, 70K likes, 11K comments in less then 2 months. It's safe to say this video has gone Viral w/ a capital Oh My Buddha!

   If U enjoy 'white whine' (TM) check out the comments section. I fortunately, have become allergic to 'white whine'. It was the result of living in Asia for the past 15 years & hearing the mumbles, moans, & mewls of whitey experiencing discrimination for the first time. I now must avoid whitey at all cost because hearing about FWP (Fapping White Problems) gives me a severe rash & migraines.

YM's Fav YT comment:

"White tears... my favorite drink!"
- Chelsy Thenigrette

   & yes, I've experienced most of these multiple times, especially the:
W: But where R U REALLY from?
YM: Canada.
W: Ok, but where was your father born?
YM: Canada ..& my grandfather was born here too.
W: Wow, ur English is really good.

   Jenny Yang is a Los Angeles-based writer and stand up comedian who produces the first-ever (mostly) female, Asian American standup comedy tour, Dis/orient/ed Comedy. She is the regular co-host of AngryAsianMan.com Phil Yu's "Angry Asian America" talk show on ISAtv.

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VID: George Takei TED Talks Internment

Why I love a country that once betrayed me

via: TED

Haiku: Internment by Yellowmenace

Melt in & forget
Nails sticking up get hammered
I dare 2 stand proud

   When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a "security" measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal definition of patriotism and democracy.

   I found this talk very moving bc I am a 4th generation Japanese-Canadian. At the same time, I think George Takei is also pitching the idea of a film about the 442nd reg. A film I'd be interested in seeing & supporting if it became a kickstarter project.

   On February 24, 1942, an order-in-council passed under the War Measures Act gave the federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".

   At that time, my father was 2 years old. His Father & Mother had their home, fishing boat & bank account confiscated. Then they gathered up my father & his 7 siblings & were relocated from their home in Nanaimo, BC to a POW camp in the interior of BC, Tashme. His father, my Gichan was born in Canada. It was his father that immigrated here before the turn of the century.

Worst AZN EVR! - Stephen Colbert

Worst AZN EVR! - Stephen Colbert

   I know this is waaay late, but I had to include Ching Chong Ding Dong on the Worst AZN EVR list.

   I've been a Colbertian since '06. He's the only comedy I watch, so I wasn't offended by Ching Chong bc I understood his intent.

   That said, I think he may have pushed it too far with the Ching Chong foundation.

Last Ching Chong appearance

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   Imagine something similar done w/ a black character, making fun of the fact that the stereotype even existed w/ that very character some kind of Uncle Tom. I guess Uncle Ruckus on the Boondocks is this type of character.

   It can B done, but it's a very thin & high tightrope to walk, especially without a safety net. Tarantino managed this ever so skillfully w/ Django Unchained, which could have gone horribly wrong.

   The CancelColbert movement scared the shit out of him & I don't think we'll see Ching Chong evr again.

1st Ching Chong appearance - Hot tea!

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YALA Ching Chong Ding Dong

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